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• ProBook 4530 s: why do I need to return the old part, if I buy a new game?

  Well, I had a problem with my motherboard and replaced by a technician on-site in that HP sent me.

  The laptop is out of warranty, and I paid for the new motherboard + labor.

  However, when technology is introduced, he said it does not replace the motherboard unless I give him the old motherboard. He went on to say that it wascompany policy"and it won't let me keep all old, even though I pay for the new component.

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  It would make sense that I was getting a free replacement and the laptop was under warranty. It makes no sense when the laptop is out of warranty and that I pay for the replacement part.

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  Tried anyway - it did nothing. It starts as if I had not changed a thing.

  It does not appear that there is a command option or HP support is terrible, worse then I had ever imagined.  They should be ashamed of themselves for cutting so many corners.

  The Tablet I bought is a known defective system.  Its design has many flaws that cause its failure usually in 1 year and 2 months of use.  Sometimes sooner, given the climates.

  HP has refused to make public something known and refused to give him a recall notice - instead they keep blaming it on other things and never get the problem resolved.

  I've been waiting 4 years after the last models were made - they would at least recognize this problem - at least a cup up to her.   This is not the case.

  I fell on the Support forums to see if my problem can be corrected.  HP apparently cares not at all.

  I will turn to illegal means to fix my problem - because HP don't care my system in any way, as well as take the chance - every chance I get - to warn everyone interested in a HP buy simply do not place.     We will go to Dell or Toshiba according to our needs.

  HP should certainly be stopped.   Bad, bad product support and skirting around the fingers solutions then don't be directed to them for making a mistake.

  Mistakes happen, HP.    What makes other companies so good compared to you - is that they cut up to the mistakes and try to do better for those made by them.  This does not mean giving millions of dollars - away simply stating "we messed up, but here is how you can solve the problem once and for all"-are all that is needed.

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  Lower temperatures up to 30 ° C.   Given that the system has been called to hit more frequently - 100 c and damage irreverseable - drop 30 c is a great victory.

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  So why, exactly, could not HP fix their own models of 4 years ago?  It was just the thermal pads, they used! They remove not enough heat, and indeed cuased heat build up on top of the CPU and GPU!  Copper to copper authorized connection heat flow upward and out of the system as it was proposed and solved overheating once and for all!

  Microsoft has had a similar problem with their origins Xbox360, the RROD.  The problem of heating has been fixed by - you guessed it - fix the spacing between the GPU and the CPU contact for heat sinks.  It's another fix ' 1 mm '.

  Of course, quality control slipped in both cases - but Microsoft rumbles again because they have replaced hard defective systems (sometimes with new systems depending on where you did) and said: "we are sorry".

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  Admit that you made a mistake.   At this time (4 years after the model has been released) nobody is going to care much if they can't get replacements.  That is what Ebay is for.  You won't have the money. You just do what you have had to do the whole time - that will HELP your customers stay loyal.

  HPs new motto should be ' go cheap and don't care, we do it. "

• TouchSmart 610-1050f: replacement part CD ROM

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  To keep this thread as productive as possible and efficient for those who find it useful to:

  Unless you have under your eyes

  1. a schematic representation of the 8 Stream USB port (USB port and battery electric circuit etc.)

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  Connector # 2. above shall provide a power supply to recharge the 8 Stream via conn. #1 and the power supply for external USB devices via conn. #3 so that they are in use - all at the same time.

  A and if the same cable can act as a normal OTG no charger for when no external power supply is available.  This may necessitate a switch or an electrontics active inside.

  The last part of this goal is unimportant for various reasons.  I wish that HP, the manufacturer of 8 flow, to State in writing good mode necessary to do this, so that other manufacturers or even-it yourself can make maximum use of their tablet HP equipment.

  ~~~~

  The neat thing it will alow a person to do with their tablet, it is to work at home using the Tablet as a desktop PC by connecting a keyboard, mouse, perhaps external screen (with USB to the display adapter) and knit for a long time without time limit prescribed by the battery life because the charger provides energy to all involved.

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  ~~~~

  I really want answers from anyone who has already accomplished USB OTG delivered with simultaneous load with flow 8. (independent of any published 'proper' way is also welcome)

  Today's date is 2015-01-16.  If in 2015-02-16 (one month), nobody has posted a solution and then starts to bug HP and Microsoft on it's us?

  ~~~~

  Technical training:

  I understand the possibility the tablet software and firmware must take a decision on the manner in which power flows on the power port USB microphone B pins.

  I know that with a proper design of the electronic circuit carring these signals of power inside the Tablet could be sensitive to what is connected and without risk to decide for himself what to do without needing to control software.  For example by testing/detecting periodically differential voltage or current management to see what sides of the connector can supply.

  But this is only one of the many "could bes".

  In addition, this can be no standard regarding the standard USB.  What seems to be actually the case with a lot of cables OTG + fresh, is that physical clues embedded in the cable or charger are used to signal to the Tablet what the situation is.  Then the signal of software/firmware of the Tablet, interprets what the situation is intelligently and responds by flipping the bits of correct hardware control to activate, or deactivate the power flow in the port and also control its direction in or out.

  I'm not familiar with the standard USB.  Maybe I could do more research, if I believed that HP followed with 8 Stream or even the standard covered this situation explicitly.

  But to a certain extent, it seems I'll have to invent something that should be intuitively just like it does with other tablets. Isn't it?  Maybe I'm overthinking, but I can't find any USB OTG + cables load that specify compatibility with 8 HP flow.

  In any case, I was familiar with both methods other use of tablets to send the highest mentioned signal to the hardware/firmware/software of the tablet to the idea that it's time to load / time of OTG or both.

  The first method is a 0 Ohm to 200 ohms short between pin USB A 2 and 3.  This is the bidirectional data differential lines D - and D + respectively.  In data mode, all the data passes back and forth on those lines.  When you load with a cable, it's the charger module that puts this short, not on the cable.  I measured the short on three different Chargers.  It is 0 Ohms on two of them, one of those who are the charger that came with the 8 HP flow.  The others 0 ohms was generic.  The third was for an apple iPad and it measured on 53KOhms.  It's probably not the resistance ohms 0-200, but probably it is impedance termination indicating that there is some intelligent serial port communication in the charger itself.  Leave it to Apple to be different.

  This method is somewhat questionable, as this signaling mode would prevent OTG + fee because it seems unlikely that you will be able to OTG when the data lines are shorted each and overloaded with such low impedance.  I could be wrong on this subject...

  The other method I have seen suggested to work with some tablets and phones other than the 8 stream is too short the USB microphone B pin 5 to Terminal 4 with 0 Ohms to 100 000 Ohms.

  USB B has 5 pins.  USB has only 4.  The extra pin on B moves the GND pin 4 pin 5 pin to and makes pin 4 PIN ID.

  If this signal applies to a drop in the ID pin (4) or in some cases, I saw that she proposed, he runs down with 0 Ohms.

  Dead shorting things always makes me nervous.  If ID is a simple normally high impedance high input, resistance could be used to make voltage well below the low or zero threshold while also preventing the risk of damage when cheat on him with a device that you do not have the diagram for.

  Yet, 100K is a bit high for a 'pull down' in most of the situations that I'm used to.  Even a 10K would be uncertain. A 1 K or 2 K seems reliable enough, but then things are weaker and in know more nowadays low...   All but a dead short but if possible.

  So, it seems possible that the device might be able to "indicate" by the specific value of the resistance, which can be found here.  In other words the resistance is not a pull down but in fact a signature analog ID, in which case the exact value will be crucial. So if this is the case, a guess is not going to work.

  Obviously in such a system as described above, a chip inside the Stream 8 should be responsible to support this information. I hope the 8 Stream has such a chip.

  Probably a register inside this chip would be at all times what the State of the pin ID is a binary number.  All that is needed is for the BIOS to the chip and the registry in it and read this number via the bus to determine what happens to the port. Finally, he would use that signals of info to send the order of material to the electrontics of power set the appropriate direction to take etc.  (and change the State of the icon on the screen of the rude)

  I don't know if the PIN ID method described is a standard USB or not either.

  Eventually, there may be a third way. But I do not suspect that it would be possible with a non-active external device. In any case too complicated for the novice DIY for sure.

  The device would need to act is a kind of extension of bus.  As an active hub.  But she would use the negotiation of data USB serial lines and in addition to reproduce one or more additional USB ports, intelligently inform the tablet to get with the program which is "now we're going to otg and recharge at the same time."

  This requires a smart external device with a processor Inside, no doubt.

  It seems to me that many other tablets have been able achieve avecjoint here the need for a smart external device and thus the flow must also be able to do.

  There is a device that claims to be able to work with the HP Jet 7 and 8 and provides same ethernet and USB and big DVI ports so loads the data stream.  But its expensive because it is active.  Se here:

  http://AMZN.com/B00OVDE0GC

  It's called a "Docking Station".

  A reference to a product that does exactly what I want (possibly without active electronic components) is here:

  http://AMZN.com/B00LTHBCNM

  It's by Kirin and it is a device of type squid with four USB ports.  Precisely, which is my goal.  But read in the comments stream 7 user indicated that he would not be OTG and load, not really clear if it worked as a hub USB OTG or not.  Another evaluator stated that she would not support even a single USB device much less fees of 8 Stream.  This device has a switch.

  I forgot to mention that some 'hackers' have claimed success with other tablets to deceive their devices by using a multi-step process to plug things in.  Usually in general they would get connected Tablet and load first, then they would return a switch or something remove some resistance or the signal was introduced by the first position of the switch. For some reason any Tablet would continue to require. Then the data lines would be free and they would plug in a usb key and it mounts correctly even if the tablet was always in charge.

  It's like the power circuit has a lock which does not allow it to return to the mode "power flow" as long as he still feels the power flows inward regardless of what software it is telling.  Full proposal here.

  These tips seem dubious to me.  Changes in the BIOS could change the way it works.  Also you can not be sure what actually happens if you do not have a schematic representation.  You could damage your tablet.  Many people will support icon in the operating system whether the Tablet is in charge.  But I'm sort of a low-risk guy and my policy is generally indicators of intereperet not to have meaning at all once a device is functioning in a non-standard setting.  Especially when it's something that I did not built and could not fix if I FRY.

  Hypothetical reasoning: tell me what data sensory discs really the State of the charging light screen?  This reflect the bit of hardware control programs actually feeding management and status on the port?  Or does it measure the direction of the flow of power, said in the section of the circuit battery monitoring?  Point - none of us have a schema because it's owner. To really be sure according to the smart electronic hardware, the port must be mode flow under advisement "of power. If it's in a "power flow out" mode and power will be delivered externally as well you wind upward with both power supplies the same power at the wheel nets.  In this case, the two opposing regulators attempting both to drive 5 V can have slightly different voltage calibrations.  That could lead to fighting between them, with more than 100% of their capacity.  For example if you try to regulate 4.95 real V and the other and other attempts to regulate 5.05 V.  Current then flows to the tune of 100 mV / a few milliohms in the cables linking the two.  This may be several amperes. (many)  In other words, like I said: you want the tablet to know that power is coming in don't go out and automatically hitting the internal switches needed for that to happen. Probably the icon should indicate this with precision, but in some wacky situation, he could not. There may be a chance that the icon could indicate the load and still be burning or focusing on some circuits of the tablet or the charger.

  Another thing, I could see that happening is if you play with these reported resistance types enough you might find a resistance value that winds up place the device in an intermittent condition.  In other words it keeps flipping back and forth quickly between OTG and fresh.  It can give the illusion that it works.  You can have marginal communication with your USB devices and battery could even load.  But will still be a lot of stress on the power circuit.

  It is difficult for me to risk a Tablet perfectly well if I don't know exactly what I'm doing.

  If a brave individual makes their own experimentation and verifies that it charges and OTGs and you tell the rest of us, you're a hero.

  Maybe one of you has a good knowledge on the USB standard to have more confidence in such an experience... like what the ID pin 4 REALLY supposed to work for example?

  That's what I know so far.  If you think you can help, thanks in advance, or if this helped you, then your quite welcome.

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  Evidence

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• How to remove the upper part of a key on a Satellite C870-C196?

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• HP ENVY Notebook PC m6: HP Envy does not charge while the laptop is turned on.

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• Satellite Pro L20: battery not charge when the power adapter is connected

  Hello

  all advice appreciated.

  I had a Satellite Pro L20 for about 18 months. Recently, battery does not charge when the power adapter is connected. The battery light starts yellow (which means more liberated, I think?), then will both green, the machine sat for awhile. However the ACPI often said that AC is "offline."

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  First, please check if the other are lit.
  If the AC led and power led are on the adapter sector is ok and it provides the power to the laptop.

  > The battery light starts yellow (which means more liberated, I think?), then will both green, the machine sat for awhile
  If the battery LED is yellow, this means that the battery is not fully charged and if the Green led changes then recharging is caught and the battery has been recharged.

  So I really don t see any problems with the charge process.

  Maybe the battery is old and so you cannot use it for an extended in such a case only the replacement of the battery could help.